Advice before adding spouse of this pre-1700 Thickstone profile?

Question

I can add a spouse to the profile of Jeremias Thickstone. This is who I can add:

• Rachel Hanse Tiol Hanse-5

These are the sources I am using:

• can't copy paste here so look at Thickstone-3 it has the doop boek

Should I contact one of the pre-1700 projects or know about any style guidelines before proceeding? Thank you!

Answer 1

The name Thickstone is one of those problematic New Netherland names -- it's spelled in diverse ways in the original records, and the problem is confounded by the fact that authors of published books have imposed one preferred spelling on all the ancestors. Nice work digging up the sources you found, then finding his wife's profile!

The profile for Rachel Hanse-5 has a record for her marriage to Jeremy Fiksten and another record for the baptism of a child with Jeremy Fikston, so your proposed connection is appropriate. All of these names need to be documented in the profiles.

However, I note that the baptism record you found is for the baptism of Jermias Dikston -- that means that Dikston (not Thickstone) should be the LNAB on his profile.

I've not found any other profiles for Jermias/Jeremias/Jeremy, but I've not yet searched to see if we have anything for his parents.

Edited to strike inaccurate statements.

Comments

This man's LNAB needs to be determined.

I know there are other people from this New Netherland family here in WikiTree, but I don't remember who I've seen. I have a hunch that these are English people whose name was Thickstone (or something similar), and those spellings in the records represent Dutch clerks' attempts at spelling that name phonetically.

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I will change his LNAB and make a note of the Americanized version.  :-)

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I have seen Jermias Fixston Fikston (On page 232) as well...still searching for that.  I will have to wait on the name change.  I have a few pages to check in that source. all re toll, Hansen and Thickstone.

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As you've seen by now, I found a book (scholarly work published by a university press) that indicates that Jeremy Thickstone was an English soldier stationed on the frontier (i.e., at Schenectady), one of several English soldiers who married local girls.

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Great!  I think i mentioned that on his profile that Thickstone was en English name.  now...to find him there!